Improvement in watch-chain bars



R. P. SIMMONS. Watch-Chain Bar.

No. 215,250, Patented May 13, 1879.

MPETERS, PHOTDJJTHOGRAPHER. WASHIQGTO C.

embracing my invention.

UNITED STATES PATENTOEE GE.

ROBERT F. SIMMONS, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

iMPROVEMENT IN WATCH-CHAIN BARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,250, dated May 13,1879; application filed March 1, 1879.

,To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT F. SIMMONS, of. Attleborough, in the State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bars forPlated Watch-Chains, of which the following is a specification.

The improvement consists in making that part of the bar to which thechain is to be attached in the form of a cylinder, with its ends thedisks have been made of pure gold, and

have been engraved orchased; and since such ornamentation cannotsuccessfully be given to plated metal, the little real gold present,being unmistakably recognized, has given to the tip and to the chain asa whole a genuine appearance.

I have substituted a similar box for the ordinary connection between thebar proper and the chain; and this new combination is of much greatervalue than the tip, for the bar of the chain is at all times a prominentfeature of the chain as a whole, while the tip is not much seen.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a bar Fig. 2 is a section on linea; a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View of the bar proper. Figs. 4 and 5 areviews of the cylinder, and Figs. 6 and 7 are views of the disk.

The bar proper is marked a, the disks 1) b, the cylinder 0, and d is aring inserted in the cylinder, as shown, to which the chain is to beimmediately attached.

The cylinder is made by drawing out a tube of plated metal in theordinary manner, and cutting it 01f at required lengths. The disks areof pure metal, and are soldered to the cyl inder, as shown. The bar ismade of plated metal, in the ordinary way, and is secured by solder inholes bored in the cylinder for its reception, as shown. The disks areengraved or chased either before or after the parts are thus puttogether; or they may be left plain, for the edges of the disks being ofpure gold, and the disks themselves hiding the edges of the platedcylinder, only gold is seen.

ROBERT F. SIMMONS.

Witnesses SHIRLEY CARPENTER, EUGENE R. RICHARDSON.

